"Luo Zheng, what happened to you?"
Ying Lao was the first to notice the strange change in Luo Zheng's body.
Beings of their stature already possessed unlimited lifespans. As long as no external force intervened, they would live forever.
Ying Lao maintained an elderly appearance, while the Eastern Emperor presented himself as a middle-aged man, merely because it suited their roles as leaders of the Heavenly Palace.
This inexplicable change in Luo Zheng's body was clearly caused by those Black Jade Bone Arrows...
"These bone arrows are devouring his life..." Nuwa said, her brows knitting.
Luo Zheng's Life Force was being ravenously devoured, and his speed, strength, and reflexes continued to decline.
Whoosh—
Four Black Jade Bone Arrows actually found an opening, slipping between Luo Zheng's hands and shooting straight toward the Eastern Emperor.
The Eastern Emperor sat cross-legged and lightly pointed a finger. The golden sword protecting him immediately swept around and slashed down at the Black Jade Bone Arrows.
Crack!
The Black Jade Bone Arrows were severed with precision, but the feather ghosts clinging to the four shafts lunged at the Eastern Emperor to bite him, leaving him almost no room to evade.
The feather ghosts vanished after biting the Eastern Emperor. In an instant, he went from a middle-aged man with a face as fine as polished jade to a white-haired elder. Even his breathing became as faint as a thread, as though he might perish at any moment.
"This..."
"Four Black Jade Bone Arrows have that much power?"
"But Luo Zheng took so many arrows..."
Seeing Luo Zheng withstand two or three hundred arrows, Fuxi, Nuwa, and the others had assumed that, although the Black Jade Bone Arrows were formidable, they were not as terrifying as the legends claimed.
Yet the Eastern Emperor was already at